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Sitting in Philosophy Class II-The Original Know-It-All

Thales the monist (But Phales first) Anaxamander's apeiron Bound by Thales's thirst Aristotle's forms are particular He found Plato forms peculiar A dualistic idealist Mathematically sure (Or so he thought) and no one bought Pythagoras's mysticism Mathematical or not And then there's Kant A metaphysical agnostic Hume's empiricism Is left to criticism And Barkley left a theological veneer On a history of philosophy so ***** Leaving no one to know for sure We'll God knows, and knows why He doesn't discover anything new He doesn't learn anew or is surprised (So if your tempted to call it Murphy's Law) Call on Him the Original Know-It-All

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